To feel terrified after reading the prepping for Brexit threads?

[LittleNapRefuser]

I have genuinely cried real tears of fear after reading the threads on prepping for Brexit today. I have a toddler and right now I am terrified of what is to come and their future after all this.

I don't really have anyone to talk to about this in 'real life' because most people I know aren't reading the news or don't seem to care.

Should I be terrified? Should I be scared for my baby's future? Can anyone reassure me or offer me an alternative perspective on all this. I don't want to to put my head in the sand but I feel really afraid.

Ain'tnothing - you wheedle and plead and say "all I want is an answer, please I'm listening." You get answered, straight in there insulting and "not interested.

Does anyone think that there may be paid BOTS advocating Brexit here?

I love a good old rant/argument, but it really needs a bit of back up doesn't it? So far seeing nothing apart from, well you know as well as I do!

Absent - I'd be careful. Francine is going to CURSE you for days, weeks, months....

dont be so ridiculous this whole prepping thing is crazy

I was attempting to reassure based on my knowledge of the main suppliers of insulin. All of them supply countries outside the EU.

This really isn’t the point. The point is the amount of transit through European borders to the UK, not the place of origin. If we leave with no deal, there is no system in place for getting all of this stuff through the border. At the very least, there’ll be an enormous backlog and major delays on some essential medications arriving into the country.

Not everyone can bulk order their medications in advance. Some drugs are controlled. Others have an extremely short shelf life - my son has had a condition from birth, the only medication for which has to be made up to order and has a 30 day shelf life. If the kids on that don’t get, they will likely require immediate hospitalisation, and will become severely hypoglycaemic.

It’s such a rarely used drug that hospitals don’t keep it in stock. This is just one illness and one drug.

I absolutely cannot believe that the government is pursuing this despite the risks to the most vulnerable in society and, worse, that some people think it’s the right thing to do.

Francine - you might as well save your breath, anyone with a different mindset is Russian, a bot, or a man. It's absolutely laughable.

Rainbow you're like a broken record: yes we get it. You think no one would be interested in your opinion and as soon as you voice it you're gonna get it shoved down your throat, yada yada yada. Now if you could just change your tune and offer some insight that would be great.

dont be so ridiculous this whole prepping thing is crazy

Great - it’s not in anyone’s interests to convince you, more tinned goods for us.

It’s not the prepping that’s crazy. The naïveté is crazy, as is the fact that this while mess is actually proceeding at all.

@FrancinePefko42
eeek!
No one listened to my sage advice obviously

@AllIHaveToDo

So you are saying that the ~60% labour constituencies who would vote a red rosette on a donkey was fooled by right wing propaganda?

However, I think the Blitz spirit is a bit of a fantasy

It is fantasy, absolutely. During the blitz entire country was united against a common enemy, everyone was doing their bit and rolling their sleeves up for the same cause. They lived with less, they didn't have a choice in the matter, so they did the best with what little they had. Where there was happiness, it was in spite of the circumstances, not because of it. The glamourisation of rations and food and fuel shortages is mental.

There's absolutely no way Brexit compares. We're divided now more than ever. There's a gaping canyon between the rich and poor and bridges between were burned long ago.

If everything does go tits-up and there is a food shortage, and whatever is on the shelves is eyewateringly expensive, you won't find much neighbourly spirit.

SPAM!

You know what rainbows I’ve decided to just give up with you because I have tried and tried and quite frankly life is too short.
You clearly have absolutely nothing intelligent to say on the subject.
It’s really brought to mind the expression ‘talking to a brick wall’
That said, I reckon I’d have a better chance with a pile of bricks.
You really have shown yourself in your true colours.
Goodbye dear rainbows

AllIhavetodo - the irony of your comment. You are all over the threads too like a broken record. You go in rotation. From doom, gloom, to why do we never get any other viewpoints? I am listening to other viewpoints, honest, just tell me please, please." Somebody answers, insult fling and "not interested". Start from beginning, faux innocence, please please, am listening" and it all starts up and goes round again.

Does anyone think that there may be paid BOTS advocating Brexit here?

Yes, and I'm astonished if anyone doubts that now following the electoral commission's report into leave campaign and the Arron Banks / russian funding scandal. Brexit is quite literally a crime scene

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Francine.

There is no need to call anyone a c unt,

I cannot even say it here. And it is allowed I know.

Slow down and think about it all. Totally unnecessary to use that language. IMO.

And I am not thread police either, don't get me wrong.

But it is obvious when the line is crossed IMO.

Justanother - I don't know the full demographics but after the referendum it showed that paces which were mainly the Labour heartlands voted strongly in favour of Leave. Namely (and I can't say I blame them) they felt the Labour Party had failed them and left them behind over the decades and due to immigration. But it was the right-wingers i.e. the vote leave campaigned which swayed them over.

JC has always been eurosceptical, some of my left wing friends are eurosceptical and voted Leave. But it was the right-wing media and campaigners which stirred up the feeling. Especially 'everybody's mate and lad about town' Nigel Farage.

This was the comment that led me to believe your "concerns" are primarily politically motivated.

There seems to be a lot of heads in sand, lalala, it will all be ok, because the govt will "do something" and it will all be sorted and all be ok. But can you really, honestly look at this shower we have and have faith in them to sort anything out?

I'm not really aiming this at the GFs on here, I know they're not listening. I'm aiming this at any lurkers. You need to know that this is the reality of Brexit

Suddenly seems to be a LOT about the politics

Absent - I'd be careful. Francine is going to CURSE you for days, weeks, months....

And to be fair she will be justified, Absent is being very selective and essentially calling her a liar based on Absents own political view point, it shows anecdotal evidence doesn't carry weight if it doesn't follow a certain narrative.

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If you say spam enough times in your head it starts to sound a bit sexual.

Badder.

Glad to hear it is just not me who thinks this could be happening!

But I am sure I will be told to put my tin foil hat on right now lol.